i kept everything together in the box, i want to format my laptop now and boot it back to vista. but in the box the only disks i have is office '07 and this thing called "reinstalling dell media direct"

i kept everything together in the box, i want to format my laptop now and boot it back to vista. but in the box the only disks i have is office '07 and this thing called "reinstalling dell media direct"

does that disk contain my OS? or what does/should

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Usually on first boot or sometime after the computer asks you to make a recovery disk, or they at least put a recovery partition on your hard drive.

Most new computers don't come with the recovery disks anymore, just the data on the computer.